Re: CVE request: distutils creates ~/.pypirc insecurely

[Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>]

On 03/27/2012 08:15 AM, Vincent Danen wrote:
> Standard flaw where a file that contains a username and password is
> written with insecure permissions.  This only affects python 2.6 and
> higher.
>
> Could a CVE name be assigned to this flaw?  I don't think one has been
> already.
>
> References:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650555
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758905
> http://bugs.python.org/issue13512
> http://bugs.python.org/file23824/pypirc-secure.diff
>
> Thanks.

Please use CVE-2012-1587 for this issue.

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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)